Hi all, I've been experimenting with Gluster for about a week now trying to get a feel for it to see how it might work for us as a back end storage for our virtual hosts. While I was reading one day I came across this:
15. I am getting weird errors and inconsistencies from a database I am running in a Gluster volume Unless your database does almost nothing, this is expected. Gluster does not support structured data (like databases) due to issues you will likely encounter when you have a high number of transactions being persisted, lots of concurrent connections, etc. Gluster *IS*, however, a perfect place to store your database backups. from the troubleshooting page. This concerns me a little, but I want to make sure I understand whether this will affect me or not. Ok, so my file store wouldn't be storing a database directly, but it would store a VM that within it would host a database (like MSSQL Server - and actually it would be a few VMs that would host databases, 2 MSSQL and several MySQL) - would this experience the same "inconsistencies" as if I had a database directly stored on gluster, or is it not a problem due to it being VM traffic rather than a bunch of separate connections to a DB stored in a GlusterFS? For now I've had to cross off Gluster, but I began to wonder if I understood the warning in troubleshooting correctly. Thanks in advance for any info! -Tony
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